Richard Dreyfuss
Acting
1947-10-29 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Richard Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor. He has starred in film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Stakeout, Always, What About Bob? and Mr. Holland's Opus. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland's Opus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and was nominated in 2002 for Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries categories.
Filmography
Waltzing with Brando
2025 · Movie
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025 · Movie
Into the Deep
2025 · Movie
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023 · Movie
Sweetwater
2023 · Movie
Commitment to Life
2023 · Movie
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022 · Movie
Save Christmas
2022 · Movie
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022 · Movie
Every Last One of Them
2021 · Movie
Crime Story
2021 · Movie
Audrey
2020 · Movie
Stars in the House
2020 · Series
Astronaut
2019 · Movie
Daughter of the Wolf
2019 · Movie
Polar
2019 · Movie
The Last Laugh
2019 · Movie
Asher
2018 · Movie
Bayou Caviar
2018 · Movie
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018 · Series
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018 · Movie
Book Club
2018 · Movie
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018 · Series
Spielberg
2017 · Movie
Shots Fired
2017 · Series
Madoff
2016 · Series
Zipper
2015 · Movie
Your Family or Mine
2015 · Series
Squatters
2014 · Movie
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014 · Series
Caserta Palace Dream
2014 · Movie
Cas & Dylan
2013 · Movie
Paranoia
2013 · Movie
Milius
2013 · Movie
Very Good Girls
2013 · Movie
Casting By
2012 · Movie
Coma
2012 · Series
The Two Million Year Old Boy
2011 · Movie
Bubble Guppies
2011 · Series
RED
2010 · Movie
Piranha 3D
2010 · Movie
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010 · Movie
Parenthood
2010 · Series
The Lightkeepers
2009 · Movie
Leaves of Grass
2009 · Movie
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009 · Movie
My Life in Ruins
2009 · Movie
The Shark Is Still Working
2009 · Movie
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009 · Movie
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009 · Movie
W.
2008 · Movie
America Betrayed
2008 · Movie
Tin Man
2007 · Series
Ocean of Fear
2007 · Movie
Spielberg on Spielberg
2007 · Movie
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007 · Movie
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007 · Movie
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006 · Movie
The Dish on Dolls
2006 · Movie
Poseidon
2006 · Movie
The Reichen Show
2005 · Series
Weeds
2005 · Series
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005 · Movie
Silver City
2004 · Movie
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004 · Movie
Coast to Coast
2004 · Movie
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003 · Series
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003 · Movie
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003 · Movie
The John Garfield Story
2003 · Movie
The Johnstown Flood
2003 · Movie
Manassas: End of Innocence
2002 · Movie
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001 · Movie
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001 · Movie
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001 · Movie
The Education of Max Bickford
2001 · Series
In Search of Peace
2001 · Movie
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001 · Movie
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001 · Movie
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001 · Movie
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000 · Movie
The Crew
2000 · Movie
Fail Safe
2000 · Movie
Where Are They Now?
1999 · Series
Lansky
1999 · Movie
Family Guy
1999 · Series
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998 · Movie
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998 · Movie
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998 · Movie
The Entertainment Biz
1998 · Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997 · Series
The View
1997 · Series
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997 · Movie
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997 · Movie
Oliver Twist
1997 · Movie
HARDtalk
1997 · Series
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997 · Movie
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997 · Movie
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997 · Movie
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997 · Movie
Mad Dog Time
1996 · Movie
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Series
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Series
The Universal Story
1996 · Movie
James and the Giant Peach
1996 · Movie
TFI Friday
1996 · Series
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995 · Movie
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995 · Movie
The American President
1995 · Movie
The Frank Skinner Show
1995 · Series
The Last Word
1995 · Movie
Present Tense, Past Perfect
1995 · Movie
Silent Fall
1994 · Movie
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994 · Movie
Quiz Show
1994 · Movie
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Series
Another Stakeout
1993 · Movie
Lost in Yonkers
1993 · Movie
Lincoln
1992 · Movie
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Series
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992 · Series
Prisoner of Honor
1991 · Movie
What About Bob?
1991 · Movie
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991 · Movie
Once Around
1991 · Movie
Postcards from the Edge
1990 · Movie
American Chronicles
1990 · Series
Always
1989 · Movie
Let It Ride
1989 · Movie
Moon Over Parador
1988 · Movie
Nuts
1987 · Movie
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987 · Movie
Stakeout
1987 · Movie
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987 · Movie
Tin Men
1987 · Movie
Citizen Steve
1987 · Movie
Stand by Me
1986 · Movie
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986 · Movie
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
1986 · Movie
Night of 100 Stars II
1985 · Movie
The Buddy System
1984 · Movie
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981 · Movie
The Competition
1980 · Movie
The Big Fix
1978 · Movie
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Movie
The Goodbye Girl
1977 · Movie
The Sentinel
1977 · Movie
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977 · Movie
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977 · Movie
Victory at Entebbe
1976 · Movie
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
Jaws
1975 · Movie
Inserts
1975 · Movie
New England Our Way
1974 · Movie
The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974 · Movie
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974 · Movie
Me
1973 · Movie
American Graffiti
1973 · Movie
Dillinger
1973 · Movie
Catch-22
1973 · Movie
A Touch of Grace
1973 · Series
The Shadow of a Gunman
1972 · Movie
Two for the Money
1972 · Movie
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971 · Series
Great Performances
1971 · Series
Treffpunkte
1970 · Series
The New People
1969 · Series
Room 222
1969 · Series
Hello Down There
1969 · Movie
The Mod Squad
1968 · Series
The Young Runaways
1968 · Movie
Valley of the Dolls
1967 · Movie
The Graduate
1967 · Movie
Judd, for the Defense
1967 · Series
The Second Hundred Years
1967 · Series
Occasional Wife
1966 · Series
Felony Squad
1966 · Series
Hey Landlord!
1966 · Series
That Girl
1966 · Series
The Big Valley
1965 · Series
Gidget
1965 · Series
Karen
1964 · Series
Bewitched
1964 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
Ben Casey
1961 · Series
Gunsmoke
1955 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Killing Winston Jones
Movie
Ocean of Fear
Series
Happiness Isn't Everything
Series
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Movie